@@justayoutuber1906 Your math is wrong by assuming that each trip is 5 minutes. Like she stated that it could be just the pins not sitting right to drop in which coulds be only 30 seconds.
@@justayoutuber1906most of my “trips” is just checking on the lanes, I only need to enter for a quick second to know if something is wrong by looking down the machines and listening then I run back up front! I almost never walk, I have to be everywhere since it’s just me so walking isn’t really an option! I’ll try to make a video that’s sped up that shows me running back there!
I worked as a journalist in a rural region 40 years ago and saw many people who similarly to Amanda kept their businesses going to keep a small town alive, rather than for personal gain. There are so many people who deserve our appreciation for such quiet heroism.
@@ytzpilot Having spent some time in the noisy side of a bowling alley, I'm betting that because there doesn't appear to be guards on the drive units, nor interlock systems. Personally, I'd rather see someone retrofit than to tear out these working antiques.
@@peterwill3699 if it was my I would temporarily turn it into a private membership bowling club for about a year to keep it from being a public business and then it could be restored using volunteers, similar to historical railways, this situation is unique
I do sincerely hope this turns out to be a successful undertaking for this girl. How she could work on aging machinery more than 300 times in one day and not walk away is a testament to her willpower and character.
I believe that place would likely qualify for some type of historical status. Especially with those original pinsetters, which are obviously one of a kind. That way she could easily qualify to get the financial help to have the pinsetters rebuilt, and restore the building and the premises. It deserves that kind of attention ! And this incredible young lady could get more of the publicity that she needs. I wish I wasn't so far away! (Arizona) I've always been fascinated by that game !
100% Candlepin as a sport should be preserved and these alleys deserve some help from the government. Far too often are we losing places for entertainment for the family due to rising costs. This woman deserves help.
She has the most common candlepin pinsetter in existence today. It’s called a Bowlmor and it’s an excellent machine. They haven’t made them since the late 60s but they’re still running in just about every candlepin bowling center in New England and Canada. A good mechanic could get these machines running properly fairly quickly. They are very reliable with regular maintenance. Many of the parts can be made as well. She just needs somebody to help her out getting them running properly.
@@NoWheyHombreIs there someone you know in Canada that could reach out to her and give her some names that work on candlepins close by where she is in Maine?
Three words... Go Fund Me! Places like this NEED to exist. Very unique. Hats off to the young lady with all the spirit. You deserve for that place to succeed the way you look after it. All the best! 🙏
@@ElationProductionsThis is how the real world in small towns works. These people keep her alley going and support her. She's not going to say "Oh Hey Brad the Chief Millwright For the County helps me fix the pulleys in exchange for a six pack and some free bowling for his kids" to national news
I’ve talked to Autumn a couple of times, she definitely has the right personality and temperament for this endeavor. I hope she has continued success with this.
I was an accomplished Brunswick A-2 and AMF 82-30 mechanic and i would damn near volunteer to help this lady out. A little PMI and pin cleaning would go a thousand miles!
Back in the '80s I worked a couple years on AMF machines which had come over from Japan in 1960 something, so they told me. They were 3 board systems and needed constant attention. Several had passed a million cycles when I was there. Fun to work on!
The reporter is factually incorrect on the pinsetters. Looking at the electrical panel, you can tell that these are Model D Bowl Mors , which were manufactured from 1958 to 1965. This is considered the best edition of the Bowlmor family of pinsetters. With regular maintenance, these are extremely reliable. What she needs is a good mechanic to come in and get the bugs out of these machines. That will go a long way into getting that bowling center on track. One person can easily handle a 12 Lane Bowling Center with reliable equipment. It has a lot going for it. Its a nice looking place and with her positive attitude she could take it a long way. 👍😁
As much as I don't trust reporters, I have to believe the previous owner told her that thing about the pinsetters being a 1940s fabricated test model. They might be wrong, but I doubt the reporter made up that stuff. Isn't is possible they were that originally and got modified through the years with other parts?
@@FungusMossGnosis What I saw from the video tells me these are Model D’s. Perhaps someone gave her incorrect information but this bowling center was quite likely opened in the later 50’s to middle 60s. Older candlepin bowling centers had the ball returns on the opposite sides . Example would be lane one on the left and lane 2 on the right. Candlepin bowling centers began installing the ball return in the center of a pair of lanes in the mid 50s. Underground ball returns which she has started appearing in the late 50s. It also appears that some upgrades have been done. I noticed that the cables for the tubes were changed over to chains. I couldn’t tell if the motors were changed over to plugins or if the ball elevator gear and motor was removed and hooked onto the turntable motor. It’s quite likely they were. I think someone loved and took care of these machines in the past. That would be great news for her. They really are excellent pinsetters with regular maintenance. 👍
Awesome story. She needs to get a live cam going for RUclips for extra money. Needs to advertise to some Rockabilly sites. They’d show up in droves for the atmosphere of it. My mom was a pin setter back in the day. I grew up in bowling alleys as a kid. Spent my time running to the bars fetching drinks for bowlers as a minor when the waitresses were busy. Made good tips as a kid. The non existent bowling alley near us used to have Candle Pin nights once a month. Had sleeves for the regular setters. I had a good childhood growing up in smoke filled booze swilling joints. Never did either and don’t today. Hope things only get better for this young girl.
Autumn, If you're committed to keeping those old machines alive, get a 3D scanner so you can quickly build models of the best parts you have in each system so they can be fabricated again... There are a lot of groups on RUclips and Facebook about machinists, fabricators and old tech fans who could help you replace parts or possibly improve them to be more reliable. If you have a modern replacement in mind, let people know, and crowdfund getting one possibly online as well as locally. One less machine breaking down can lead to another replacement, and another...
Think about what you are saying. Do you have any idea what a decent 3D scanner costs? Probably her income for an entire year. That doesn't include the software and training to operate it, nor the expertise and costs of fabricating the parts.
@@darkwood777 Walmart sells a hobbyist Creality scanner for $479 plus tax, delivered accurate to .002" that should meet her needs and training videos are all over RUclips and at local libraries. This includes a small rotary stage, tripod, and software. Your avg apple or samsung phone can do it for free, with less accuracy.
@@darkwood777 With technology such as Lidar, I am sure something could be done. Newer iPhones an iPads have this technology built in- and, I know it's not perfect for this use case...it's certainly worth a shot to at least try it.
@@darkwood777 There are many free software solutions that are compatible with a USB Xbox Kinect (the old 360 kinects go for about $10, the newer ones maybe $50-75) lmao it's really not complicated. Seriously, most implementations are clicking the start button and moving around the item. For EXTREME accuracy yeah you'll need a crazy setup, but for this some photos with a rule and simple 3D scans could be recreated pretty easily---or at least translated into some proper accurate CAD models. It would go a long way towards the goal of rebuilding the setters in the future to capture them now for really not a lot of upfront.
@@darkwood777 You don't need a scanner. All you need to do is take a ton of photos with an Iphone then put them into a program like Blender. It stitches the photos together to make a 3D model.
A Pin Man I knew several It is a tough job and every one of them was deaf by age 50 It is incredibly loud back there and you need ear protection, plugs and protective ear headphones 🎧 to protect your hearing
What kind of society are we living in where soulless Instagram models are millionaires and this wonderful hardworking young lady is hanging on by a thread? Please start a way for non-locals to show their support.
bowled here since I was a kid. I'm glad there are still places like this around. there are fewer and fewer places to go that don't involve spending a lot and drinking.
As a kid in 1969, I spent Friday nights setting pins manually at our small town Texas YMCA. It was intended to be a manual operation. I sat on a "shelf" or ledge behind my lane. When the ball arrived and knocked pins, I jump down into the "pit", set the standing pins in the triangular rack above, picked up the ball and rolled it back toward the bowler, pulled the lever to lower the standing pins then return the rack to a lifted position, and jump back up on the shelf. Had to move fast 😂 God bless this sweet girl who makes a difference for her hometown.
Outstanding story. I grew up in a small town playing candle pin bowling and it was such a joy to have soemwhere to go in winter. The sights, sounds, smells (except for a few bowling shoe odours😁) was awesome and it was so alive with league competitions, fun rivalry etc. I have nothing but very fond memories and definitely relate to this story. This young lady and her business are ansolute treasures so I hope she gets all the support she can.
I'm an old guy and pretty cynical about young people. I have nothing but respect for this woman. If I lived nearby, I'd organize a volunteer pool to help support her.
We love bowling here every week! Thank you for everything you do Autumn we really appreciate it. We have dinner and shoot pool at the strike and slice sports bar attached and it's always the best food and company!
I'm an engineer specializing in machinery. if I lived there I would volunteer to design improvements to those pin setters. And she could point out where the especially troublesome issues occur.
Words are words until action is taken! I live local, and I'm telling you that if you have the time, money, energy and altruistic desire to give when nothing can be returned right away, you would be helping a business that has been going my entire life. That establishment has been open under various owners for 35+ years, and Autumn and her fiance are doing everything they can!
My Friend's Family owned a Bowling Alley and Not only did It employ people, but gave Younger people something better to do than Hanging out in streets.
Went here all the time as a kid and it truly is a one in a lifetime place takes you back in time, glad to see her running it still ill have to stop by and say thank you for keeping this place alive it truly is a child memory not only with myself but with my family THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO!
i'm an old candlepin bowler from massachusetts and it's good to see this young gal keeping the bowling alley going. they are hard to come by now. good luck.
Yes sir original from Framingham Massachusetts 5min from Natick Massachusetts and use to bowl at the old fairway lanes on rt9 and loved to watch Don gillis and Participate in some chanel 5 roll offs
i live near there too and went to a taping of the ch. 5 show in the early 90's when one of my coworkers bowled against tom olzsta. he had a lead midway into the 3rd string but olzsta got hot and he lost. i was a 105 bowler back then but now lucky to crack 90 at acton bowladrome. do you still bowl?@@simplekustomsbyeddiepapand1838
I lived in Salem, NH until I was 12 (in 1980)... used to bowl on a rec league. Moved to Colorado and imagine my shock when I went bowling for a birthday party and it was 10-pin. I never even knew there was anything besides candlepin! I got 104 my first game and I thought, "This is easy!" Not sure I've ever bowled a better game than that one! 😂
Thank you Autumn ❤ for keeping a lost past time going. My grandfather use to love to play on a league. I wish you much success 🙌 I hope you can get some volunteer help, barter some bowling time. 👍🕊💜
What a wonderful woman, and what a wonderful, wonderful story. Thank you to everybody who was involved in the production of this story for all of your hard work. I, for one, truly appreciate it!
Autumn Mowery is an inspiration to many people in her town, and even around the globe. Never met her or Ryan, but after looking at RUclips, Wix Web, and Facebook, only the best wishes for all of them.
The Caribou Bowl-A Drome is still open for candlepin bowling up here in the County. I'm so glad to hear of someone else preserving an important piece of local history. Once places like this go away, they don't usually come back.
Those machines are fine, they do not need to be replaced! They need some TLC from an experienced mechanic! I have worked at and been to 10 pin centers where the machines have the exact same problem, always breaking down, then I will go to a different center with the exact same machines and they will run great. I can't believe that workers comp will not allow you to hire an employee to maintain the machines. If that is the case, time to look for another workers comp company, or hire an independent contractor for the repairs. The maintenance is easy on those machines if you know what you are doing! Those machines are your life blood. Happy machines = happy customers = money in your pocket.
Andy I just wrote another commentary above and I 100% agree with you I had worked in both duck pen and candlepin alleys and bowled leagues and tournaments in both duck pins and candlepins and repaired many types of malfunction on both types of machineries. The old school Duckpin and candlepin machineries were so well built when they first came out that the manufacturing companies went out of business. Most of her minor problems with this Machinery at this bowling alley can be cured with a few hacks such as tightening or removing links from chains that are too loose, tightening belts ,using simple Hardware or stuff you can get at Home Depot or Lowe's to build better ball deflectors and pin deflectors, proper lubrication of moving parts. Broken parts or sheet metal problems can be taken to a local machine shop or metal fabricator to help out. Yes it's a challenge but doable
These are Bowlmors. They are the best candlepin machine that was ever made. You can make a lot of the parts yourself and there are parts available from Candlepin Sales in Georgetown Mass. These just need a lot of TLC . I used to work on these in Massachusetts in the 80s and 90s . An experienced pinsetter mechanic could get these running fairly well rather quickly. I live in Florida and near retirement now, but if I lived in the Ellsworth area, I would go there and work on them for free. She seems like a real go-getter and I wish nothing but success for her.
@@stevea6936 You are absolutely correct in your assessment. They need a lot of minor fix’s for starters. They are very good machines, and they were very well-built.
The comment about replacing the pinsetters really made me cringe! No doubt the new ones would be string pins, and with all the charm gone, this place would close down quickly.
Holy heck Autumn is so cool. To be able to buy the bowling alley and run it completely by herself just so that little town can have a little fun is just simply Amazing.
My father always talked about his days as a pin setter when he was a teenager back in the late 1940's, early 50's. He said the bowling alley was THEE place to meet the girls lol
What a remarkable young lady! I sure hope that her community continues to support her!
Her math isn't right. 340 trips x 5 min (to walk back, fix the problem, and walk back) = 1700 min / 60 = 28.3 Hours in one day.
@@justayoutuber1906 Your math is wrong by assuming that each trip is 5 minutes. Like she stated that it could be just the pins not sitting right to drop in which coulds be only 30 seconds.
@@justayoutuber1906most of my “trips” is just checking on the lanes, I only need to enter for a quick second to know if something is wrong by looking down the machines and listening then I run back up front! I almost never walk, I have to be everywhere since it’s just me so walking isn’t really an option! I’ll try to make a video that’s sped up that shows me running back there!
@@justayoutuber1906 stop dude. focus on crypto micro strategies instead of wasting your time in comments. start with PULSECHAIN $0.00014
THIS is how we make America great again: no politics, no bravado...just commitment and hard work.
Autumn, you are a true hero.
Sucks insurance companies suck though
Because of em she can't get help is what I meant
Agreed! This is old fashioned American grit, the grit that built this Nation.
yes she is .. not many like her from her generation
@@daveh8316 That's bullshit and unfair. I know plenty of people her age who are just as awesome. Quit being ageist.
I worked as a journalist in a rural region 40 years ago and saw many people who similarly to Amanda kept their businesses going to keep a small town alive, rather than for personal gain. There are so many people who deserve our appreciation for such quiet heroism.
🎯🎯🎯
This is what an honest capitalist does. Much more risky because there's no safety net.
Come on you retired machinist and machinics, help this girl out please.
As the story said her insurance won’t allow her to hire people to work on it, the equipment isn’t certifiable
@@ytzpilot Having spent some time in the noisy side of a bowling alley, I'm betting that because there doesn't appear to be guards on the drive units, nor interlock systems.
Personally, I'd rather see someone retrofit than to tear out these working antiques.
Volunteer not hired .You can always have singed a waiver.
@@peterwill3699 if it was my I would temporarily turn it into a private membership bowling club for about a year to keep it from being a public business and then it could be restored using volunteers, similar to historical railways, this situation is unique
Thats why he said "retired" @ytzpilot
I do sincerely hope this turns out to be a successful undertaking for this girl. How she could work on aging machinery more than 300 times in one day and not walk away is a testament to her willpower and character.
I believe that place would likely qualify for some type of historical status. Especially with those original pinsetters, which are obviously one of a kind. That way she could easily qualify to get the financial help to have the pinsetters rebuilt, and restore the building and the premises. It deserves that kind of attention ! And this incredible young lady could get more of the publicity that she needs. I wish I wasn't so far away! (Arizona) I've always been fascinated by that game !
100% Candlepin as a sport should be preserved and these alleys deserve some help from the government. Far too often are we losing places for entertainment for the family due to rising costs. This woman deserves help.
She has the most common candlepin pinsetter in existence today. It’s called a Bowlmor and it’s an excellent machine. They haven’t made them since the late 60s but they’re still running in just about every candlepin bowling center in New England and Canada. A good mechanic could get these machines running properly fairly quickly. They are very reliable with regular maintenance. Many of the parts can be made as well. She just needs somebody to help her out getting them running properly.
Well, there is no American big ball bowling in Atlantic canada that I know of. We have nothing but Candlepin. It's well preserved up here
Historical status limits what you can do to the building. It will drive her out of business.
@@NoWheyHombreIs there someone you know in Canada that could reach out to her and give her some names that work on candlepins close by where she is in Maine?
Three words... Go Fund Me! Places like this NEED to exist. Very unique. Hats off to the young lady with all the spirit. You deserve for that place to succeed the way you look after it.
All the best! 🙏
Yes ..go fund me..i would help out!!!!
She is a business owner not a beggar. Some of yall welfare kids have no shame.
I'm not giving her money, but I'd fabricate a part or two if I could.
@@ElationProductionsThis is how the real world in small towns works. These people keep her alley going and support her. She's not going to say "Oh Hey Brad the Chief Millwright For the County helps me fix the pulleys in exchange for a six pack and some free bowling for his kids" to national news
She does have a Go Fund Me, found it on the D'amanda bowling alley website under the shop section. You can also buy a candle pin key chain.
People like her are the strength in America.
She cares about others, she works works hard.
She is great.
She's a true Republican, because a libtard would be crying in their safe space.
Agree 100 percent but she is a dying breed.
I’ve talked to Autumn a couple of times, she definitely has the right personality and temperament for this endeavor. I hope she has continued success with this.
Folks in this thread have suggested a GoFundMe for this alley and that young lady. Are you aware if one has been set up?
@@publicuser2534 I personally haven’t heard anything.
@@1kukini Well, who knows, maybe this segment will drum up more business or someone willing to install a new pin setter.
@@publicuser2534 I hoping something comes of this for her.
I was an accomplished Brunswick A-2 and AMF 82-30 mechanic and i would damn near volunteer to help this lady out. A little PMI and pin cleaning would go a thousand miles!
I applaud you sir.
Awesome! You sound like you know what you are talking about!
Back in the '80s I worked a couple years on AMF machines which had come over from Japan in 1960 something, so they told me. They were 3 board systems and needed constant attention. Several had passed a million cycles when I was there. Fun to work on!
Someone tell me how to reach out to this lady so we can help history of the sport stay where it belongs!!!
I think my comment was deleted but the place is called D'Amandas (Ellsworth Bowling Alley.) You can scan the QR code at 5:22@@johnturpin2583
This is national CBS Sunday Morning level journalism. Thank you for bringing this story.
The reporter is factually incorrect on the pinsetters. Looking at the electrical panel, you can tell that these are Model D Bowl Mors , which were manufactured from 1958 to 1965. This is considered the best edition of the Bowlmor family of pinsetters. With regular maintenance, these are extremely reliable. What she needs is a good mechanic to come in and get the bugs out of these machines. That will go a long way into getting that bowling center on track. One person can easily handle a 12 Lane Bowling Center with reliable equipment. It has a lot going for it. Its a nice looking place and with her positive attitude she could take it a long way. 👍😁
As much as I don't trust reporters, I have to believe the previous owner told her that thing about the pinsetters being a 1940s fabricated test model. They might be wrong, but I doubt the reporter made up that stuff.
Isn't is possible they were that originally and got modified through the years with other parts?
@@FungusMossGnosis What I saw from the video tells me these are Model D’s. Perhaps someone gave her incorrect information but this bowling center was quite likely opened in the later 50’s to middle 60s. Older candlepin bowling centers had the ball returns on the opposite sides . Example would be lane one on the left and lane 2 on the right. Candlepin bowling centers began installing the ball return in the center of a pair of lanes in the mid 50s. Underground ball returns which she has started appearing in the late 50s. It also appears that some upgrades have been done. I noticed that the cables for the tubes were changed over to chains. I couldn’t tell if the motors were changed over to plugins or if the ball elevator gear and motor was removed and hooked onto the turntable motor. It’s quite likely they were. I think someone loved and took care of these machines in the past. That would be great news for her. They really are excellent pinsetters with regular maintenance. 👍
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@@dukebaloof2540 Ok Chief……🤣🤣🤣
We need more Americans like her.
There are actually millions of us toiling away, underpaid, overworked and underappreciated by millions of others who take our work for granted.
Amazing story. This is an example of what you can do when you have supportive people in your corner in life.
If she was closer to me I would volunteer to repair things for her,I'm a retired millrite of 40 years.
Time for a roadtrip
Same. Would love to help her engineer some fixes. She’s amazing.
Millwright*
@@KC9UDXthank god you showed up
Last week I couldn't spell millwright, and now I are one.
This hero should be on national news to showcase the people that build and keep American running!
mike rowe
I just nearly bawled my eyes out. This is a girl that is needed in America
She needs a GoFundMe for her operation.
WE ALL DO
Awesome story. She needs to get a live cam going for RUclips for extra money.
Needs to advertise to some Rockabilly sites. They’d show up in droves for the atmosphere of it.
My mom was a pin setter back in the day. I grew up in bowling alleys as a kid. Spent my time running to the bars fetching drinks for bowlers as a minor when the waitresses were busy. Made good tips as a kid.
The non existent bowling alley near us used to have Candle Pin nights once a month. Had sleeves for the regular setters.
I had a good childhood growing up in smoke filled booze swilling joints. Never did either and don’t today.
Hope things only get better for this young girl.
As a Milwaukeean I highly approve of this story! God Bless Autumn and All the best success to you!
Autumn, If you're committed to keeping those old machines alive, get a 3D scanner so you can quickly build models of the best parts you have in each system so they can be fabricated again... There are a lot of groups on RUclips and Facebook about machinists, fabricators and old tech fans who could help you replace parts or possibly improve them to be more reliable. If you have a modern replacement in mind, let people know, and crowdfund getting one possibly online as well as locally. One less machine breaking down can lead to another replacement, and another...
Think about what you are saying. Do you have any idea what a decent 3D scanner costs? Probably her income for an entire year. That doesn't include the software and training to operate it, nor the expertise and costs of fabricating the parts.
@@darkwood777 Walmart sells a hobbyist Creality scanner for $479 plus tax, delivered accurate to .002" that should meet her needs and training videos are all over RUclips and at local libraries. This includes a small rotary stage, tripod, and software. Your avg apple or samsung phone can do it for free, with less accuracy.
@@darkwood777 With technology such as Lidar, I am sure something could be done. Newer iPhones an iPads have this technology built in- and, I know it's not perfect for this use case...it's certainly worth a shot to at least try it.
@@darkwood777 There are many free software solutions that are compatible with a USB Xbox Kinect (the old 360 kinects go for about $10, the newer ones maybe $50-75) lmao it's really not complicated. Seriously, most implementations are clicking the start button and moving around the item. For EXTREME accuracy yeah you'll need a crazy setup, but for this some photos with a rule and simple 3D scans could be recreated pretty easily---or at least translated into some proper accurate CAD models. It would go a long way towards the goal of rebuilding the setters in the future to capture them now for really not a lot of upfront.
@@darkwood777 You don't need a scanner. All you need to do is take a ton of photos with an Iphone then put them into a program like Blender. It stitches the photos together to make a 3D model.
You GO Autumn!! Love this story and hope she's able to keep going with it!!
I'm pretty sure they used to have a full-time person in the back to do that... God bless this girl and keep her safe. ❤
A Pin Man
I knew several
It is a tough job and every one of them was deaf by age 50
It is incredibly loud back there and you need ear protection, plugs and protective ear headphones 🎧 to protect your hearing
@@ocsrcdoesn’t look like she has any protection at all 🙀
Mad respect for this young woman!
What kind of society are we living in where soulless Instagram models are millionaires and this wonderful hardworking young lady is hanging on by a thread? Please start a way for non-locals to show their support.
Well said by friend, I think u just record the collective thoughts of everyone who's seen this story
Echoed, echoed the thoughts 🤭
$$$ talks dude , that's it , AI Instagram models make waayy more than her
@@Edwardsjm
It’s called “America”. ‘Soullessness” is our bread and butter. Get used to it.
Such an inspiring story. Such a hard-working young lady, who deserves all the success in the world.
She’s a true inspiration and I really want to try that bowling.
I hope others will help her keep this nostalgic wonderful bit of America alive and running.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Really cool bowling alley, with an AMAZING owner. Autum is incredible ! I love thé fact that she is keeping history alive. Thanks for sharing !
bowled here since I was a kid. I'm glad there are still places like this around. there are fewer and fewer places to go that don't involve spending a lot and drinking.
God bless her!! That there is, literally, the spirit of America. Love it!!
I agree!
What a wonderful story about a truly amazing young lady!!!! ☺
As a kid in 1969, I spent Friday nights setting pins manually at our small town Texas YMCA. It was intended to be a manual operation. I sat on a "shelf" or ledge behind my lane. When the ball arrived and knocked pins, I jump down into the "pit", set the standing pins in the triangular rack above, picked up the ball and rolled it back toward the bowler, pulled the lever to lower the standing pins then return the rack to a lifted position, and jump back up on the shelf. Had to move fast 😂 God bless this sweet girl who makes a difference for her hometown.
I've done this before. You're right, you did have to move fast. They called us "pin boys".
and tips were whatever spare change the bowlers had in their pocket tossed down the gutter, better when they toss a 300 or high 200 game.
Outstanding story. I grew up in a small town playing candle pin bowling and it was such a joy to have soemwhere to go in winter. The sights, sounds, smells (except for a few bowling shoe odours😁) was awesome and it was so alive with league competitions, fun rivalry etc. I have nothing but very fond memories and definitely relate to this story. This young lady and her business are ansolute treasures so I hope she gets all the support she can.
I'm an old guy and pretty cynical about young people. I have nothing but respect for this woman. If I lived nearby, I'd organize a volunteer pool to help support her.
Keep the dream alive! God Bless America, and God bless this young lady!
We love bowling here every week! Thank you for everything you do Autumn we really appreciate it. We have dinner and shoot pool at the strike and slice sports bar attached and it's always the best food and company!
here
@@K1OIK Thanks, captain correctem. Whatever would we do without you :P
If you don't say anything it's like having a conversation with someone and not telling them they have food on their face.
@@sunnybunnyfeeling7062 here, here, or should I say hear, hear?
She is what makes this World Great !!! It's called hard work !!!
Kind caring people make the world great.
I'm an engineer specializing in machinery. if I lived there I would volunteer to design improvements to those pin setters. And she could point out where the especially troublesome issues occur.
You wouldn't have to live there. Just plan a vacation there.
Words are words until action is taken! I live local, and I'm telling you that if you have the time, money, energy and altruistic desire to give when nothing can be returned right away, you would be helping a business that has been going my entire life. That establishment has been open under various owners for 35+ years, and Autumn and her fiance are doing everything they can!
She is a really good person. Some company that makes pin setting equipment needs to donate.
Maybe a team of talented MIT undergrads could do a summer project. Evaluate and design/fix her system.
Someone needs to nominate her as a tone hero she's pretty much saving your town so I think she deserves a GoFundMe page
Our family loves this place! Please support it!
My Friend's Family owned a Bowling Alley and Not only did It employ people, but gave Younger people something better to do than Hanging out in streets.
She is just awesome and so remarkable/ inspiring ❤❤❤
Went here all the time as a kid and it truly is a one in a lifetime place takes you back in time, glad to see her running it still ill have to stop by and say thank you for keeping this place alive it truly is a child memory not only with myself but with my family THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO!
One of the best and most relevant stories I’ve seen in years.
Wow great job Autumn! A remarkable woman, for sure!
Great! Hope her business is successful.
This girl will be a great success at whatever she does!
Except bowling
at 3:53 solid Dad joke perfect delivery by the news anchor. Very impressed by this young lady.
True grit and hard work always pay off. What a gem of a person!
This young ladies embodies true American values. Keep your chin up! #HardWorkPaysOff
i'm an old candlepin bowler from massachusetts and it's good to see this young gal keeping the bowling alley going. they are hard to come by now. good luck.
Yes sir original from Framingham Massachusetts 5min from Natick Massachusetts and use to bowl at the old fairway lanes on rt9 and loved to watch Don gillis and Participate in some chanel 5 roll offs
i live near there too and went to a taping of the ch. 5 show in the early 90's when one of my coworkers bowled against tom olzsta. he had a lead midway into the 3rd string but olzsta got hot and he lost. i was a 105 bowler back then but now lucky to crack 90 at acton bowladrome. do you still bowl?@@simplekustomsbyeddiepapand1838
I lived in Salem, NH until I was 12 (in 1980)... used to bowl on a rec league. Moved to Colorado and imagine my shock when I went bowling for a birthday party and it was 10-pin. I never even knew there was anything besides candlepin! I got 104 my first game and I thought, "This is easy!" Not sure I've ever bowled a better game than that one! 😂
Very cool. I worked in a bowling alley in the early 2000s. The machines were installed in 1944. We were constantly working on them.
That's passion! Proud to see. Much respect for her!
I used to bowl there! Great place. Glad to see it's back in business and keeping the old place alive.
This is amazing to see. Go Autumn!
OUCH! What a good girl! Keeping that old stuff around is heavenly! We have an old bowling alley I LOVE. but they dont have those pins.
Glad to see this business still running! I miss our bowling alleys.
Shes an American Hero. Do whatever it takes to support her. I want to make a donation
This is the way America was I wish this young lady the very best of success
Props to this legend for saving the bowling alley! Local welders and machinists need to help this woman! 😂😂
What an amazing person. What passion! WOW!! ❤
Thank you Autumn ❤ for keeping a lost past time going.
My grandfather use to love to play on a league.
I wish you much success 🙌
I hope you can get some volunteer help, barter some bowling time. 👍🕊💜
She's awesome. You can feel She's living a happy life
Amanda is a friggin LEGEND!!
If they replace the machine they should donate the old one to a museum because of its age.
What a wonderful woman, and what a wonderful, wonderful story.
Thank you to everybody who was involved in the production of this story for all of your hard work. I, for one, truly appreciate it!
That’s amazing. What a lady. Hope she succeeds there. Very cool to keep that alley up and running
Great job young lady!
Amazing sacrifice making sure her town has some good fun. Truly amazing
a remarkable young woman . . . i really hope that hand heals perfectly. Stay safe Autumn.
She can’t hire an employee but can hire an outside insured firm to do actual repairs , mods and refurbishment .
The problem is these machines are prototypes and the parts don't exist. They should 3d scan the parts to remake them as new parts
Costs money she doesn't have
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Autumn Mowery is an inspiration to many people in her town, and even around the globe. Never met her or Ryan, but after looking at RUclips, Wix Web, and Facebook, only the best wishes for all of them.
She is a beautiful and hard working young lady, amazing !
Makes me feel good seeing people my age keeping the old stuff rolling.
This young lady is nothing short of a hero.
What a wonderful gift she is!!!! I hope you prosper😊
What a great girl to realize that it needed to be saved for the town. I hope it all works out.
Working on her American Dream. It’s great to see the media pick this up.
Good job lady
To step up and do something and give kids a healthy outlet and activity. Cheers from 🇨🇦
That's a determined young lady. Awesome story. Good luck to you, Autumn.
Autumn, you are amazing. I hope all the best to you, the business and your family.
for what ever her reason she is amazing
Such an inspirational story! Hope nothing but the best for this young lady.
God bless her! She is what American spirit is all about. Hard work and reward.
What an inspirational story. I do hope she gets help with her bowling alley.
The Caribou Bowl-A Drome is still open for candlepin bowling up here in the County. I'm so glad to hear of someone else preserving an important piece of local history. Once places like this go away, they don't usually come back.
Bravo to that young lady, bravo!!!!!!!!
Those machines are fine, they do not need to be replaced! They need some TLC from an experienced mechanic! I have worked at and been to 10 pin centers where the machines have the exact same problem, always breaking down, then I will go to a different center with the exact same machines and they will run great. I can't believe that workers comp will not allow you to hire an employee to maintain the machines. If that is the case, time to look for another workers comp company, or hire an independent contractor for the repairs. The maintenance is easy on those machines if you know what you are doing! Those machines are your life blood. Happy machines = happy customers = money in your pocket.
Andy I just wrote another commentary above and I 100% agree with you I had worked in both duck pen and candlepin alleys and bowled leagues and tournaments in both duck pins and candlepins and repaired many types of malfunction on both types of machineries. The old school Duckpin and candlepin machineries were so well built when they first came out that the manufacturing companies went out of business. Most of her minor problems with this Machinery at this bowling alley can be cured with a few hacks such as tightening or removing links from chains that are too loose, tightening belts ,using simple Hardware or stuff you can get at Home Depot or Lowe's to build better ball deflectors and pin deflectors, proper lubrication of moving parts. Broken parts or sheet metal problems can be taken to a local machine shop or metal fabricator to help out. Yes it's a challenge but doable
These are Bowlmors. They are the best candlepin machine that was ever made. You can make a lot of the parts yourself and there are parts available from Candlepin Sales in Georgetown Mass. These just need a lot of TLC . I used to work on these in Massachusetts in the 80s and 90s . An experienced pinsetter mechanic could get these running fairly well rather quickly. I live in Florida and near retirement now, but if I lived in the Ellsworth area, I would go there and work on them for free. She seems like a real go-getter and I wish nothing but success for her.
@@stevea6936 You are absolutely correct in your assessment. They need a lot of minor fix’s for starters. They are very good machines, and they were very well-built.
The comment about replacing the pinsetters really made me cringe! No doubt the new ones would be string pins, and with all the charm gone, this place would close down quickly.
@@SalisburySnake Salisbury you need to do your homework Candlepins pinsetters have never and never will be on strings
Remarkable young lady! Cheers to you!
Holy heck Autumn is so cool. To be able to buy the bowling alley and run it completely by herself just so that little town can have a little fun is just simply Amazing.
My father always talked about his days as a pin setter when he was a teenager back in the late 1940's, early 50's. He said the bowling alley was THEE place to meet the girls lol
Go Autumn! I wish her success!
Wow! What an amazing story!! Remarkable young lady!!
This is incredible! First full time time job I had in Jr High was pin setter in a semi- automatic bowling alley. Never heard of candle stick pins!
What a brave courageous girl. Go autumn Go !
This young lady is fantastic! I wish more young people would be like her!
That is a great story and if I lived back that way I would support Autumn and her business!